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Tuesday, September 19, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
15,000 dead in Iranian quake
TABAS, Iran-Afterhocks rolled across the parched countryside of northeastern Iran yesterday where an estimated 15,000 persons are reported dead from a giant earthquake that demolished 40 villages and badly damaged 60 others Saturday.
Minute-takeques and mud-brick houses in Tabas crumbled under the force of the Saturday evening tremors, giving the ancient city about 400 miles southeast of the capital the appearance of a flattened sandcastle. Only a few buildings escaped major damage.
buildings escaped major damage.
The quake, Iran's worst this year, killed an estimated three-fourths of Tabas' 13,000 residents. Most of the survivors were seriously injured and the most severely hurt were flown to Tehran for treatment.
7. 7 Richter scale quake would swell above the 10,000 mark as reports were made by an official news agency who rescue workers feared the death toll from the 7.7 Richter scale quake.
Forces airlifted in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua-Government forces were airlifted into positions around Esteli in northern Nicaragua yesterday to attack the last guerrilla
Although Estel has been in rebel hands since Sept. 9, the national guard said Saturday it had overpowered northern positions in the town of 30,000.
Earlier, the guard, Nicaragua's 7,500-member army, recaptured the towns of Masaya, Leon, Chinandega and Penas Blancas, routing rebels who are led by guerrillas intent on overthrowing the authoritarian government of President Anastasio Somoza.
Arizona State team from the Organization of American States was in Costa Rica to examine Coral Reef claims that Nicaraguan forces crossed the border between Arizona and Costa Rica.
Someone complained that Costa Rica gave shelter to what he says are Communists trying to overthrow him.
Oswald tried to go to Cuba
WASHINGTON—A man identifying himself as Lee Harvey Oswald went into a rage when Cuban authorities in Mexico refused to give him immediate permission to visit the communist nation, a retired Cuban official told the House Assassinations Committee yesterday.
Eusebio Azucar Lopez, the Cuban consul in Mexico City in the early 1960s, described the man who visited his institution in 1963 as "not very pleasant."
Azcue, now retired and living in Cuba, appeared as part of the committee's efforts to find out what happened during a seven-day trip Oswald took to Mexico only two months before the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
Who contend Kennedy's assassination was a conspiracy say Oswald may have used the trip to contact others involved in a plot. Others say the man who appeared at the Cuban consulate may have been an imposter coerering for Oswald while he made a secret visit to Cuba.
The committee conceded it had been frustrated in efforts to trace Oswald's activities during the trip. The Cuban and Mexican governments have made some witnesses available, Robert Blakey, committee counsel, said, but investigators have been unable to find others with knowledge of Oswald's accu-
9 leukemia patients improving
HOUST—A cancer researcher has reported encouraging improvement in nine of 21 leukaemia patients who underwent reimplantation of their own bone
"I'm convinced this is the way to go for many patients," said Karle A. Dicke, director of the autologous bone marrow transplant program at the University of Texas Medical Center.
Two years ago, Dicke began taking patients' bone marrow while they were in remission—a temporary disappearance of symptoms due to drugs or surgery. He found that the marrow was not dying.
Dicke said nine of the first 21 patients to undergo autologous transplant, or reimplantation of their own marrow cells had achieved complete second and third stages.
He said five of the nine remained in complete remission, with the longest now about 14 months in duration.
Dicke and his associates have taken bone marrow from about 200 leukemia patients while they were in remission. The samples are kept frozen until the study is complete.
Senate passes pesticide bill
WASHINGTON—The Senate yesterday passed a compromise on a long-delayed bill to simplify and extend the federal pesticide control program.
The House is expected to act on the compromise today. The measures would allow creditors to obtain
The measure would allow qualifying states to exercise primary enforcement of pesticide use and simplifies Environmental Protection Agency registration
The bill, approved by voice vote after little debate, was so complex that its path through Congress took about two years.
Proposal for disabled outlined
TOPEKA-A A proposed new state program to provide better services to severely disabled persons yesterday was outlined to the interim Ways and Means Committee by Robert C. Harder, state secretary of social and rehabilitation services.
*harder said the proposal was for discussion purposes at this point, but said, 'We think it does suggest some possible ways to go in relation to providing more information.'*
The program envisions the establishment of three centers for the handicapped: a vocational rehabilitation assessment center, an independent living center, and a community-based treatment center.
Harder said his staff estimated it could establish one pilot project center for independent living for $8,180, and could set up a pilot independent living center.
Wolf Creek threat investigated
BURLINGTON—Federal and state authorities are investigating a telephone bomb threat that halted work for a time yesterday at the $1 billion Wolf Creek mine.
Officials of Daniel International, contractor for the 1.18 million kilowatt nuclear plant, said the plant was checked area by area and no explosive devices
The FBI joined county and state officials in investigating the threat.
Jesse Arterbun, superintendent of nuclear development for Kansan Gas & Electric, said that none of the 2,000 workers were sent home and that the call, "We have no phone," he said.
Committee berates public TV
TOPEKA—A proposal by the state Public Television Board to spend up to $1.19 million during the next five years to develop a state public TV network using microwave transmission came under heavy fire in a legislative interim committee meeting yesterday.
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, led the committee's questioning of the board. He was critical of the cost of the preposal.
At issue is how elaborate a system the state wants to help fund, and how much money the Kansas Legislature wants to require from the three communities
New stations are proposed for Hays, Garden City and in southeastern Kansas, probably in Chanute.
Weather
Temperatures are predicted to reach the upper 80s today. There is a 20 percent chance of afternoon showers, and winds will be from the east, 15 to 30 degrees.
It will be cloudy and cooler tonight, with a 50 percent chance of showers. The low tonight is predicted to be in the upper 50s.
WICHITA (AP)—City Manager Gene Denten appealed to individual firemen and policemen yesterday to return to work after negotiations with the International Association of Firefighters became official when its members rejected a proposed contract.
Firefighters' negotiations stalled
"Up until now, the city has been fortunate during the police and fire job action," Denton said. "We have not suffered from a noticeable increase in crime or from any major fires. But we cannot be sure how public will tolerate the current situation."
The firefighters' action left the negotiations deadlocked. No immediate meetings are scheduled between the two sides.
EARLIER VESTEDAY, the 268 striking firemen rejected a proposed contract settlement by a nearly unanimous margin and elected to continue their week-long strike
until the city improved its 1979 contract offer.
Negotiations opened yesterday between the city and the Fraternal Order of Police, bargaining agent for the 160 policemen on strike.
City Attorney John Dekker said after the four-hour meeting that the FOP had presented some proposals, which he would send to members of Congress and to them in another session this afternoon.
"I THINK we can work out some kind of contract," Jim Cichran, president of the N.C. University School of Law, said.
KC is seen as sole area having enough physicians
The law creating the scholarship program ordered that Health and Environment determine which areas of the state are medically underserved. Medical students who agree to practice in these areas will their medical education paid for by the law.
ONLY THE area made up of Johnson, Wyndotte and Leavenworth counties has sufficient physicians under the guidelines to determine who was adequately served.
In the category of general practitioners, 10 other counties—besides the three in the Kansas City area—also were listed as adequately served. They are Sedgwick,
The report, presented yesterday to the Legislature's interim Committee on Medical Education, came as a result of a new state medical scholarship program.
TOPEKA (AP)-Only the Kansas City metropolitan area has enough physicians in all categories of medical practice to qualify as being adequately served medically, a report by the state Department of Health and Environment shows.
firefighters' rejection of their contract will affect the FOP falks.
Fire Chief Floyd Hobbs issued a request for the firefighters to return to work immediately and said they would be put back on the job automatically. He said any repercussions would be considered on an individual basis at a later date.
Rush, Barton, Pawnee, Stafford, Edwards,
Prikt, Klawn, Barber and Comanche.
IN THE categories of general surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology, pathology and gynecology, quality management at the metroilapolis Kansas City—were the 23 counties of southeastern Kansas stretching from Rice and McPherson counties on the northwest to the south.
The rest of the state's 92 counties are classed as underserved, meaning the medical students can practice in any of them, because it count as a payback on their scholarships.
The northeastern area of the state surrounding Topeka qualified as adequately served in psychiatry, in addition to the Kansas City area.
Only the Kansas City area was termed adequately served in physical medicine, occupational therapy and nursing.
The classifications were based on whether an area was above or below the state average and the optimum criterion for the various specialities.
EARLIER HOBBS had asked that 243 of the firemen be fired, but Denton has not signed the final paperwork and he said he hopes the men would apply for reimbursement.
The only immediate penalty, Hobbs said, would be a letter in their personal files and
many other documents.
"NO ONE knows the magnitude of fraud against the government," General Accounting Office Comptroller General Elmer Winslow said, appearing without anyone knowing about it."
cost taxspapers between $2.5 billion and $25 billion a year.
Police Chief Richard LaMunayon has fired 12 police officers since their walkout began Thursday. Forty others have been charged with the completion of their termination penalties.
crease and contained no provision to ease penalties for striking policemen who might
The testimony came as the Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee headed by Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., a hearing to learn how various government investigations of the GSA were progressing. Chiles' subcommittee on federal spending practices and open government is to hear from GSA officials today.
The police department hired eight persons yesterday and increased its interviewing staff by 10 persons to handle a list of 75 cases in the nation. No new firemen were being hired.
But a second department official said the cases "in a so-called advanced stage of development" involve "relatively low-level" persons.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The first indictments from two grand jury investigations of fraud within the General Services Administration could be handed down in about eight weeks, a top Justice Department official said yesterday.
Under the pact, all city employees would have received a 9 percent and $40 a month raise if a half-cent sales tax was approved. A quarter of all city's current offer is 6 percent and $40 a month.
but look, president of Local 666 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said the men had reservations about the sales tax tie-in.
GSA indictments expected soon
Meanwhile, a congressional watchdog agency said fraud and related white-collar crimes against the government were not limited to the GSA and such illegal activities.
FIREFIGHTERS voted down the tentative contract offer because it tied a payoff to the company.
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"I THINK what it comes down to, we wouldate to have a good contract set up and keep it on the desk, something happen again," he said, referring to two past rejections of sales tax rules.
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Cook said that the firemen wanted a guaranteed pay raise and that the city could take care of it.
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A clause in the contract proposal voted on by the firemen Sunday and resubmitted to the city would have eased penalties against policemen who returned to work.
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But the FOP attorney said the policemen would bargain such issues for themselves, and the clause was deleted from the contract before firefighters voted.
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